"Freshly Picked Vana’diel 7" Digest

Greetings,

To coincide with the May version update, Producer Akihiko Matsui held another "Freshly Picked Vana'diel" to go over some of the new content and discuss other topics pertinent to adventuring. Below is a digest of what was discussed.

Originally Posted by Akihiko_Matsui

Hello,
Matsui here.

Thanks for tuning into Freshly Picked Vana’diel 7.

For those of you who were unable to watch the stream, I've created this digest of what was discussed during the stream.

（05:35～)*The video introduces character that appear in the missions as well as a summary of the Adoulin missions.

Adoulin Storyline Summary
Under directive of Ygnas S. Adoulin, the Sacred City of Adoulin ventures to colonize the region of Ulbuka once again after a long period of inactivity. Ygnas is a mysterious person who rarely shows his face to others, and the story begins in a period of turmoil as the city is divided into factions that both support and oppose this directive.

Shortly after, it becomes apparent that Ygnas has fallen victim to a curse. Unable to communicate normally and imparting the knowledge only to adventurers, Ygnas tells of a crisis that is approaching Ulbuka.

Along with Arciela, adventurers act to save Ygnas, but with Arciela assuming a neutral position for colonization she is met with anger by both the supporters and opposition.

Important Characters

Ygnas: Head of the Twelve Orders of Adoulin
The central figure of the Twelve Orders that govern Adoulin who ordered the continued colonization of Ulbuka. Two years ago he founded each of the coalitions that the adventurers are getting involved in.

Arciela: Ygnas's younger sister
Heroine of the Adoulin missions.
Possesses an uncanny power to communicate with the elementals of the forest.

Ingrid: A master exorcist
Commonly known as Ingrid the Merciless One. Was called upon to break the curse placed on Ygnas, and slowly begins to think Arciela is interfering with the colonization efforts.

Darrcuiln: A gold tiger
A gold tiger that lives in Ulbuka.
Saves Arciela and becomes her guardian.
The reason why Darrcuiln lends Arciela his power is one of the keys of the story.

Teodor: A mysterious aristocrat
Imparts knowledge to adventurers when they are lost, but the condition for this knowledge is to accept his challenge to games.

Melvien: Leader of the Order of Woltaris
A person with a lot of influence with the Twelve Orders.
A character that appears frequently in the “Excerpts from Adoulin” series.

Wings of the Goddess Area Support
Trust alter egos can now be called forth in Wings of the Goddess areas. They can also be used in Campaign battles, so combine your powers and keep the beastmen army’s at bay.

New Alter Egos

Gessho
The first alter ego whose main job is ninja.
A tank-type alter ego that uses Utsusemi to absorb enemy attacks.

Maat
A monk-type alter ego.
A melee fighter who will use Perfect Counter if he pulls hate.

D. Shantotto
An alter ego that is a different character than Shantotto, and can be used at the same time as the original.
Different than the original Shantotto, D. Shantotto auto-attacks with a scythe.
Possess special weapon skills.
D. Shantotto will be introduced during the Repeat Login Campaign that takes place in June.

Waiting animations for alter egos that do not auto-attack
When fulfilling certain criteria, alter egos such as Shantotto and Sakura that do not perform auto-attacks will now display special wait animations.

Calling alter egos while partying with other players
As there is a lot to be tested for this we still cannot make any guarantees, but we are working towards implementing this feature in the June version update.

Expansion of the areas in which adventuring fellows can be summoned
We are currently working towards expanding the areas in which adventuring fellows can be summoned for the next version update. To start off we plan on making it possible to summon them in Adoulin areas.

Additional of new enhancement categories
We’ve added two new enhancement categories for each job.

Implementation of a chain bonus
Regardless of a player’s item level, you can earn a capacity point bonus by chaining the defeat of monsters over level 100 within a certain amount of time. The capacity points you earn will increase as you continue to defeat more and more monsters, and when defeating level 120 monsters, you can earn a maximum of a 1.6x bonus.

Records of Eminence support
We added objectives that will allow you to earn capacity points.

Implementation of party bonuses for certain content
Similar to Woh Gates and other dungeon areas, we’ve implemented party bonuses for Delve and Skirmish (excluding Yorcia Weald).

Equipment changing with macros
We've confirmed a bug where it's not possible to change multiple pieces of equipment at the same time that is split between your Gobbiebag and Mog Wardrobe by using macros. We are currently looking into ways to address this and will be fixing it soon, but please give us a bit of time. You can avoid this bug by placing the equipment you want to use into either your Gobbiebag or the Mog Wardrobe, or by using the /wait command. We apologize for the inconvenience, but in the meantime we’d appreciate it if you could use one of these methods until the issue is fixed.

Macro to change all equipment at once
We are currently looking into adding a macro that will allow you to change multiple slots of equipment at once.